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Existence cannot be forced to go according to you; it flows in its own way. If you can flow with it, you will be positive. - Osho
I
was staying in a village rest house. It was a very poor village, but it
was filled with many dogs. They all gathered in the night around the
rest house; it must have been their usual habit. The rest house was a
good place – big trees, shadows, and they must have been resting there
every night. So I was staying there, and one minister of a particular
state was staying there. The minister became very much disturbed because
the dogs were barking, creating much nuisance. Half the night passed
and the minister couldn’t sleep, so he came to me.
He said,
”Are you asleep?” I was fast asleep, so he came near to me, made me wake
up and asked me, ”Please tell me how you could fall into sleep amid
such noises all around. At least twenty to thirty dogs are there, and
they are fighting and barking and doing everything that dogs ordinarily
do. So what to do? I cannot sleep, and I am so tired after the whole
day’s journey. If I cannot sleep, it will be difficult for me. The next
day I have to go again on a tour, and I will leave early in the morning.
Sleep doesn’t seem to come, and I have tried all the methods I have
learned and heard about – chanting a mantra, praying to God, etc. I have
done everything, but nothing happens, so what to do now?”
So I
told him, ”Those dogs are not gathered here for you or to disturb you.
They are not even aware that a minister is staying here; they do not
read newspapers. They are completely ignorant. They are not here
purposefully, they are not concerned with you. They are doing their
work. Why are you getting disturbed?”
So he said, ”Why should I not? How not to? With so much barking, how can I go into sleep?”
So I told him, ”Do not fight with the barking. You are fighting – that
is the problem, not the noise. The noise is not disturbing you, you are
disturbing yourself because of the noise. You are against the noise, so
you have a condition. You are saying, ’If the dogs stop barking, then I
will sleep.’ The dogs won’t listen to you. You have a condition. You
feel that if the condition is fulfilled, then you can sleep. This
condition is disturbing you. Accept dogs! Do not make a condition that
’If they stop barking, then I will sleep.’ Just accept.
”Dogs
are there and they are barking; do not resist, do not fight, do not try
to forget those noises. Accept them and listen to them, they are
beautiful. The night is so silent, and they are barking so vitally –
just listen. This will be the mantra, the right mantra: just listen to
them.”
So he said, ”Okay! I do not believe that this will
help, but as there is nothing else to do, I will try.” He fell asleep,
and the dogs were still barking. In the morning he said, ”This is
miraculous. I accepted them; I withdrew my condition. I listened. Those
dogs became very musical, and their barking, their noise, was not
disturbing. Rather, it became a sort of lullaby, and I fell into deep
sleep because of it.”
It depends on your mind. If you are
positive, then everything becomes positive. If you are negative, then
everything turns negative, everything turns sour. So please remember
this -not only about noises, but about everything in life. If you feel
that something negative exists around you, go and find the cause within.
It is you. You must be expecting something, you must be desiring
something, you must be making some conditions.
Existence cannot
be forced to go according to you; it flows in its own way. If you can
flow with it, you will be positive. If you fight with it, you will
become negative and the whole cosmos around you will turn negative.
OSHO
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